TBH though they're right that it isn't AI at fault. AI, in its current form, is not, despite the marketing hype including losers here, autonomous, intelligent, and capable of being handled the burden of responsibility. It is ultimately a tool, and someone chose to use that tool, and someone chose to give that tool the powers it had.

Maybe those are two different someones. Maybe it was an inevitable result of an AI mandate from management, or maybe it was a combination of an AI mandate from management and misjudgements by the engineer or engineers who set it up.

But every single person in that chain is human. And ultimately the major issue may be with the idea of an AI mandate in the first place, because, frankly, its been forced on us for 3-4 years now, and you'd have to be wholesale deranged to think requiring the use of AI for every task is a good idea.

Why not call it the AI Corps, or even the Fraud Corps? If you call it the latter maybe you can include cryptocurrencies in their mission?

KVMs are incredibly popular, especially since the advent of WFH when they're an ideal way to ensure a desktop and "the company laptop" can share a good keyboard and couple of screens.

They were once a thing rarely seen outside of data centers, today they're a commodity item.

Anthropic's CEO then went home to his newborn and his one year old son, and announced that he will have 1024 children in the next ten years.

I know, we should do it the US way and give handouts to billionaires instead. Because those people work hard on their hobbies.

Isn't a problem with ARM that there's multiple binary architectures? arm64/AArch64, armhf, armel, plus a classic unsupported architecture - my understanding is these aren't compatible with one another, though maybe I'm wrong on that?

...and was having to fight the anti-Rust people in the Linux group too. At least one was intentionally sabotaging Rust bindings the project needed until Torvalds stepped in.

They've had a whole bunch of unnecessary push back which shouldn't happen in an open source project.

> PS. I cantfigure out how to make paragraphs in Slashdot comments.

Either select Plain Old Text as your posting mode (press the Options button), or if you're using HTML mode then use <P>

Ah so Anthropic are the good guys, that's what you're saying?

So if that's the case, why are they trying to get contracts with the Pentagon at a time that the military is unilaterally and without due process firing on and killing operators of boats near Venezuela, when the TV personality in charge of the DoD is trying to get it rebranded the "Department of War", when we've just had several months where the President is threatening, for no good reason, to declare war on Greenland and Canada, and so on and so forth?

I mean, it would have been pretty bad for them to chase contracts with the DoD during the Obama era, what with the droning that was going on (but at least one could argue the Obama's abuse of the DoD was an attempt to use the military in the national interest), but it's very clear the current administration intends to reshape the military as a force to shore up fascism.

And this is before we get to the part that we all know, that they're still ultimately promoting spicy-autocomplete as some kind of solution to the world's problems, just like every other "AI" company.

I don't think the GP was saying it wasn't happening, I think he was saying that those two right wing posters are fantasizing about it in the same way a heterosexual male with a normal sex-drive might fantasize about (example) Jessica Alba.

> Cynically I won't what their angle is.

Public relations.

Big Tech is doing everything it can to create a dystopia. Everyone can see it, it's being built in broad daylight, and there's enormous pushback. Anthropic doesn't want to lose its best employees, and a sizable amount of its income is from services that are sold directly to individuals, and it doesn't want to lose those customers either.

> By the time I was a grown-as man, that went out of vogue and the identity-first stuff was back in vogue. But it wasn't like the bad old racism and sexism of old, you see. It was enlightened and scientific now. So instead of keeping down the womenfolk, we were gonna keep down the menfolk to even it out! And instead of a maximum melanin allowance, we're going to Reverse The Polarity! and impose a minimum melanin quota in hiring! But the jew-hatin...we can still have that, we just gotta reframe it as anti-settler-colonialism to help ourselves sleep at night.

None of this ever happened. You just told yourself that. Why? I can speculate. I can speculate you thought women getting jobs meant men wouldn't. I can speculate you thought treating black people with respect in some way meant white people wouldn't have what they have. I can speculate you were simply blind to the discrimination that existed. Maybe you really weren't intentionally discriminatory, and you thought that meant nobody else was either. Or maybe it was the opposite: maybe there were sexist and obnoxious things you did, maybe you sexually harassed co-workers, or made racist jokes in the breakroom, and you didn't want to be held accountable.

But no feminist called for keeping down the menfolk. No civil rights campaigner called for firing white people for being white. No LGBT person forced you to have gay sex or change your gender. At worst you had to refer to someone born in a woman's body using male pronouns, which was easy because they wore male clothing and had a male haircut and no make-up, or else be treated as a jackass.

And it was stupid of you to tell yourself those lies and to vote for people who ran on those lies being true, because now we live under fascism, and there's a great chance that the next few elections will be rigged, and the power of government used for the foreseeable future to make a tiny minority wealthy, and to enact violence against all those who complain about it, together with arbitrary groups designated the scapegoat of the hour.

And yes, you'll be a victim. Perhaps more of a victim than the average liberal. Liberals fight against this crap, and yes, at least two were murdered in plain sight, on video, in a way no rational person could describe as anything other than murder. But that makes us harder to steal from than the administration's marks. The people who believe these lies will believe everything. And the administration will take full advantage of that.

I know you don't see yourself as a mark. And I know you're now getting unreasonably angry at me for suggesting you are one. But... victims of successful con-artists are the hardest to convince.

> True, but the volume today is orders of magnitude more

Not really, no.

You know, I distinctly remember a music journalist on TV making the same argument about how music was simplistic and reliant on catchiness and so on. He even gave an example, holding up cards of the same repeated lyrics as he played a popular song.

The song was "No Limits" by 2 Unlimited and the year was probably 1993 or 1994. The 1990s was especially poor for music, and yet gave us the Nine Inch Nails among other great bands.

Today is no different. You just won't realize what the good songs are until the filters of popular culture bury the crap and float the good stuff to the top, and that can take a decade or more.

> No, you and several others missed the point.

Nah, you just didn't make the point you thought you were making. What you said was:

"Considering what passes for popular music these days, I'd wear out my damn skip button"

"these days" made it look like a get-off-my-lawn rant, rather than something about 90% of music of all eras being crap.

I would imagine the modding down was the Old Fart Get Off My Lawn intro rather than anything to do with whether there was a torrent link or how big the archive was.

(For those thinking "But most music today is crap", that was true ten years ago... twenty... thirty... forty... my entire life, and before it. You only remember the good stuff. There are always gems in the rough, that's what makes music worth listening to.)